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    De-noising of gravitational-wave data: the rROF method in the cWB data analysis pipeline 

    Barneo González, Pablo José (Date of defense: 2024-01-19)

    [eng] Since the first experimental evidence for the existence of gravitational waves in 2015, the amount of data in this scientific area has increased enormously. There has also been a great deal of interest in the ...

    Personalising robot assistance for cognitive training therapy 

    Andriella, Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-10-13)

    (English) There are 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, and this number is projected to triple by 2050. While there are no pharmacological treatments for this syndrome, behavioural therapy such as cognitive ...

    Dynamical characterisation of the Magellanic Clouds with Gaia data and the KRATOS simulations 

    Jiménez Arranz, Óscar (Date of defense: 2024-04-08)

    [eng] The more clearly visible galaxies to the naked eye in the night sky are the Magellanic Clouds (MC), the biggest galaxies in the Milky Way (MW) neighbourhood. Because they are so close, the Large and Small Magellanic ...

    Contribution to smart management services for electric vehicle charging using vehicular networks 

    Barbecho Bautista, Pablo Andrés (Date of defense: 2022-05-19)

    (English) The most promising solution to reduce carbon emissions due to transportation is migrating from fossil-fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). In recent years, the decisive shift of drivers to use EVs has been ...

    Remote distribution of quantum states assisted by multimode quantum memories 

    Lago Rivera, Darío (Date of defense: 2022-11-02)

    (English) The future quantum Internet will allow the transfer of quantum states between remote locations. However, bridging large distances is a challenging task due to losses in optical fibres. A promising approach to ...

    Reacciones nucleares elásticas analizadas con la fuerza de Gogny 

    López Moraña, Juan (Date of defense: 2024-01-22)

    [spa] El Modelo Óptico es una de las herramientas más esenciales para analizar experimentos de dispersión nuclear. Se basa en la hipótesis simplificada de que la interacción nucleón-nucleón individual entre el proyectil y ...

    Untangling chromatin: investigating the role of transcription, supercoiling and topoisomerases in genome organization 

    Martín de Dios, Laura (Date of defense: 2024-05-06)

    La organización del genoma en células mamíferas sigue siendo en gran parte desconocida. Un nivel fundamental de organización se considera el bucle de cromatina, que consiste en una región de ADN atrapada en el interior ...

    Role of histone modifications in transcription regulation upon environmental stress in eukaryotes 

    Bae, Hansol (Date of defense: 2024-04-26)

    Epigenetic modification serves as a crucial mechanism in regulating gene expression and facilitating cellular adaptation to environmental stress. This study aimed to identify histone residues and their associated ...

    Valorización de subproductos vegetales del Valle del Ebro mediante microondas y pulsos eléctricos 

    Oliván García, Marta (Date of defense: 2024-04-05)

    Actualment, s'estan generant gran quantitat de residus alimentaris que, en el cas d'Espanya, arriben a més de 7,7 milions de tones, cosa que provoca un problema mediambiental greu. La preocupació pel medi ambient impulsa ...

    Disentangling the formation path of lenticular galaxies 

    Tous Mayol, José Luis (Date of defense: 2024-04-12)

    [eng] Astronomers have known of the existence of lenticular galaxies (S0) almost as long as they have known that there are other galaxies besides the Milky Way. While it is accepted that spiral galaxies emerge from the ...

    Improving the Reliability of Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy 

    Weber, Jonas (Date of defense: 2024-04-11)

    [eng] Owing to its exceptional topographical resolution and electrical sensitivity, Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy (C AFM) has become an essential tool for nanoscale material analysis. However, achieving reproducible ...

    Development of microfluidic devices for cancer cell isolation 

    Sierra Agudelo, Jessica Nathalia (Date of defense: 2024-02-23)

    [eng] The emergence of liquid biopsies has been useful for the diagnosis of physiological conditions, inflammatory processes, and especially represents a good alternative tool for non-invasive analysis of tumor-derived ...

    Development of opto-mechanical sensors based on silicon nanopillars for biological applications 

    López Aymerich, Elena (Date of defense: 2024-01-19)

    [eng] The scope of this thesis is the advancement on the theoretical simulation and nanofabrication of photonic crystals based on a periodic array of silicon pillars. This research is intended to be part of the preliminary ...

    Influencia de la luz en el crecimiento y desarrollo de Monilinia spp. y su efecto en la producción y biosíntesis de melanina 

    Verde Yáñez, Lucía (Date of defense: 2024-04-05)

    La podridura marró és una malaltia causada pel fong Monilinia spp. en fruita de pinyol i de llavor, provocant grans pèrdues econòmiques, especialment durant el període postcollita. Estudis realitzats els darrers anys han ...

    Towards a non-perturbative description of cosmological inflation 

    Cruces Mateo, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)

    [eng] From the observation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) we know that the universe is isotropic on scales larger than ∼ 75 Megaparsec to at least one part in 100000. The leading paradigm for explaining ...

    Coherent Flux Qubits for Quantum Annealing 

    López Núñez, David (Date of defense: 2024-04-12)

    [eng] Quantum annealing is a heuristic analog quantum algorithm that promises potential quantum speedup over classical algorithms for a huge variety of optimization problems. Current existing annealers, despite their ...

    Reformes institucionals i la seva contribució a l'enfortiment dels factors d'atracció d'inversió estrangera directa. El cas del Principat d’Andorra 

    Jordana Carmona, Lorena (Date of defense: 2024-05-08)

    La globalització econòmica ha exercit una influència significativa en la captació d'inversió estrangera directa (IED) per part dels estats. El Principat d'Andorra, en sintonia amb aquest procés, ha buscat activament ...

    Temporal and frequency differentiation of healthy and pathological lung tissue through minimally invasive electrical impedance spectroscopy 

    Company Se, Georgina (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)

    (English) Respiratory diseases, along with heart diseases, are the most prevalent in the world. The acquisition of lung samples is essential for a correct diagnosis of the disease. For peripheral lesions it is not easy to ...

    Dynamical and Mechanical Characterisation of Bi- and Tri-dimensional Neuronal Cultures: from Health to Disease 

    Fernández López, Clara (Date of defense: 2024-01-12)

    [eng] In this PhD thesis, we leverage the well established foundations of complex systems physics and integrate insights from medicine and materials engineering to advance our understanding of neuroscience. Our primary ...

    Statistical methods for the analysis of complex epidemiology data 

    Esnaola Acebes, Mikel (Date of defense: 2023-06-23)

    (English) Epidemiology is a relatively young and rapidly evolving science. Recent technological breakthroughs have allowed modern epidemiologists to raise increasingly ambitious research hypotheses. This has originated ...